Showcasing Fall 2015

Each August, the Colorado State University community awakens from its summer slumber to welcome the latest group of Rams to campus. In a ritual that has been repeated annually for nearly 150 years, freshmen and their families move their belongings into residence halls painstakingly prepared to serve as home away from home. You can feel the excitement in the air as young people, eager to learn and grow, fill the campus with a unique and vibrant energy not found in other parts of the city. Read More

Inside this Issue

This fall, CSU welcomed the largest and most diverse freshman class in the University’s history, was honored as the most sustainable university in the country and received a platinum rating from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS), becoming the first institution in the world to earn the highest ranking for sustainability.

The Fall 2015 semester was full of heart and highlights for first-year students at Colorado State University. CSU is focused on ensuring both access and success for students, in the classroom and through a wide range of co-curricular activities, and our Ram Welcome. And becoming part of the Ram Family extends to the rest of your family as well, who are welcomed with open arms as well.

Homecoming & Family Weekend is the time of year where we all come together to celebrate the past, present, and future of Colorado State University. This year’s Homecoming was a nonstop flurry of activity, from the parade, pep rally and bonfire on Friday to the 38-23 football victory over Air Force on Saturday and all the reunions and dinners and events Sunday and throughout the week.

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The woman who leads the popular Halo video game franchise says her sports background not only got her into gaming, but helped level the playing field in a traditionally male-dominated field that she wants more women to enter.

Modern science and ancient ritual combined Sunday as a herd of 10 American bison thundered from a holding corral onto the northern Colorado prairie, the first step to restoring the nation’s largest iconic land mammal to this part of its historic range.